Tutorial:Things to do
Here is a list of various things for a player to do, which range from surviving to navigation.
Surviving
Surviving is essential to playing survival Minecraft, especially in hardcore mode.
General
After beating a raid, or raiding a woodland mansion it is recommended to hold a totem of undying from the raid in your offhand to avoid dying while still being able to hold another item when the totem activates.
It may also be a good idea to keep a shield or second totem handy in your hotbar, but you may ignore this if your armor is good and your situation safe.
At night
If new, the player can dig three blocks down, block off the roof, and place a torch to see, optionally as well as a crafting table and furnace. When the player thinks it's day or finds out that it's day, they can return to the surface. If it's not day when the player digs up, the player can always block it off again.
Alternatively, the player could dig a room into a cliff side or a mountain to obtain stone and place a door at the entrance and utilize that room as a first-night shelter.
After a few iron ingots, the player should make a bucket and/or flint and steel. This lets the player go to the Nether and/or cook animals to get cooked meat faster, or use it to burn other mobs later. The player should be cautious when using lava, as it is more dangerous and will burn items.
Flint and Steel
Flint and Steel can be used in multiple ways to survive.
They include:
- Burning mobs when surrounded.
- Getting cooked meat without use of a furnace.
- An emergency jump boost if in a bad situation.
They also only cost 1 iron and 1 flint, making it one of the easiest tools to make. Although, the player could accidentally set themselves or the environment on fire so be careful while using flint and steel as it may cause death or damage to the environment in some cases.
Armor
The Nether
While going to the Nether, the player should replace their armor (specifically damaged armor) with new ones since it can break faster meaning the player will be less protected when fighting or taking damage in lava.
The End
The player should bring at least diamond armor if not very skilled, as the Ender dragon can knock the player very high. Enchantments are recommended, but not needed. Feather falling can be very useful when the Ender Dragon knocks the player into the air or off a high place, such as the obsidian pillars.
Villages
Popularity
If in a village and an iron golem is present, the player should not hit any villagers or otherwise aggravate the golem, as it will retaliate. This is not a problem if the player has killed the iron golem, but the villagers can summon another one.
Taiga villages
If the player has weaker armor than iron or has no armor at all and is in a taiga village, the player can search for the armor stands with iron armor on them and take it, but shouldn't when the player already has better armor, but the player can still take it as a spare set.
Curing
If the player wants to bring a villager's price down without defeating a raid, in hard or normal difficulties, the player can convert the villager into its zombie variant and cure it by using a splash potion of weakness and a golden apple and wait about 5 minutes for it to turn back, and it will give the player discounts, although it won't work twice with the same villager. Note: a villager in normal difficulty has a 50% chance to die instead of converting into a zombie villager.
Trading
The player should only use trades of a villager they can easily afford, (e.g 32 sticks for an emerald, 11 glass panes for an emerald), unless the player is trying for higher levels. Expensive ones such as a diamond for an emerald, 36, 25 34, etc, for one bell, are not recommended as the items required are more valuable and hard to obtain.
Food
If running out of hunger points, such as 6 hunger points (
) or with the hunger effect (
), it is recommended to only eat when the hunger amount is missing the exact same amount of the food the player has adds to it. This way, it fills up without overflow to save more food later. If you are in a dangerous place or need to regenerate health immediately, then eat immediately, preferably a food that provides a lot of saturation and/or the regeneration effect. Note: once you have a reliable food supply, you may ignore this.
